Citizen station KD5JEOKD5JEO
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.2 mi away/935 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Crystal Lake Beach, Minnesota
Beach in Dakota County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures in the upper 20s to lower 30s expected. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, south central, southeast, and southwest Minnesota and northwest and west central Wisconsin. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
45°
51°/41°
Overcast·
Feels like 40°·Gentle breeze 9 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Crystal Lake Beach until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Crystal Lake Beach is 45° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:09 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 10 hours 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
21Air quality
94%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
45feels40
18%
Today
Oct 16
5141
85%
19mph
Sat
Oct 17
5832
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
6442
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6544
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6944
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7250
17%
Thu
Oct 22
7254
23%
45°
51°41°
58°32°
64°42°
65°44°
69°44°
72°50°
72°54°
As of 3:00 AM in Crystal Lake Beach, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Crystal Lake Beach
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Southern Twin Cities Metro (MN), 1 mile off.
21Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)21Good1.6 mi
- Ozone8Good10 ppb13.3 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)-19.9 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide2Good2.9 ppb17 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.1 ppb17.9 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.2 ppm1.6 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 28, good.
GoodModerate
- 28YesterdayOct 15
- 28TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Crystal Lake Beach
0.85 in in the last 24 hours, 0.96 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.85in
- Last 3 days
- 0.96in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 89%
Visibility
How far you can see at Crystal Lake Beach, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Dakota County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 44.7241° N
- Longitude
- 93.2583° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Crystal Lake Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Burnsville I-35W Mile Post 4MN086
Beside a road/5.3 mi away/792 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/7.0 mi away/961 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
At an airfield/11.2 mi away/833 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Burnsville 3.3 SSEMN-DK-317
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/964 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/7.9 mi away/958 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Minnesota
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Crystal Lake Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Buck Hillski area, 1 mi
- Lakevillecity, 2 mi
- Burnsvillecity, 2 mi
- Apple Valleycity, 3 mi
- Savagecity, 5 mi
- Farmingtoncity, 6 mi
- Credit Rivercity, 6 mi
- Rosemountcity, 6 mi
- Eagancity, 8 mi
- Bloomingtoncity, 8 mi
- Prior Lakecity, 9 mi
- Richfieldcity, 10 mi